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Ticonderoga and Crown point
The immediate object of the attack on the British Forts at
Ticonderoga and Crown Point on May 10 and 11, 1775 was first to
capture the forts themselves, but also to obtain a cannon and supplies
to use for the impending seige of Boston. Washington, who assumed
command of the American forces on July 2, 1775, could not attempt
this attack without heavy artillery, which was procured by Colonel
Ethan Allen, Colonel Benedict Arnold and Colonel Seth Warner with
VermontÆs Green Mountain Boys.
Green Mountain Boys, was the name of a group of soldiers from
Vermont led by Allen, Warner and Arnold. They took their name from
the Green Mountains in Vermont. The Green Mountain Boys were
originally organized by Ethan Allen before the revolution to protest the
claims of the New York government to Vermont territory, and were
later joined by Seth Warner and Benedict Arnold.
Seth Warner, was born in Connecticut and later moved to
Vermont, where he was declared an outlaw in 1771 for forcibly
resisting a New York claim to the area, and had a reward offered for his
capture. Under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, he participated in the
seizure of Fort Ticonderoga and led the force that took Crown Point
the next day. Later that year, he was elected lieutenant-colonel
commandant of the Green Mountain Boys.
Ethan Allen was also born Connecticut, moving to Vermont in
1769. He became involved in the struggle between New York and New
Hampshire for control of the region, just like Allen was. The New York
authorities rejected an appeal that the region be established as a
separate province, and Allen organized a volunteer militia, called the
Green Mountain Boys, to resist the New York cause. Volunteers were
raised by the Committee of Correspondence. They recruited fifty men
and three hundred pounds to set up the Green Mountain Boys. Allen
too, was declared an outlaw by the governor of New York. At the
outbreak of the Revolution, Allen and The Green Mountain Boys offered
to fight against the British.
Arnold was born in Connecticut and enlisted in the militia
during
the French and Indian War. Later, as a militia colonel, Arnold joined
with Allen and The Green Mountain Boys to take Fort Ticonderoga .
Allen and Arnold, by order of the Connecticut legislature,
crossed lake Champlain in two boats with a total of eighty-three men
and captured Fort Ticonderoga early in the morning of May 10, 1775,
while the British garrison was still sleeping. Allen demanded that the
British commander surrender in the name of the Great Jehovah and
the Continental Congress. The commander complied and
consequently there was no bloodshed. Military supplies from the fort
were used to aid George Washington's ill-equipped American forces,
who were attempting the seige of Boston.